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Horizontal striations move across the exterior, evidence of the forming process preserved rather than smoothed away. Held in two hands, as a chawan of this kind is meant to be, it settles with a gravity that is difficult to articulate and immediately felt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis bowl is accompanied by OG Matcha Kakitsubata from Osada Tea, selected to complete the tea experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shoraku Kiln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53312523632954,"sku":null,"price":388.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShorakuKiln_Chojiro_Kamuro_Black_1.webp?v=1776060578"},{"product_id":"red-raku-matcha-bowl-set","title":"Red Raku Matcha Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed raku occupies a different register from its black counterpart. Where black raku draws inward, red raku is open and warm, its terracotta tones a direct expression of the clay body characteristic of the raku tradition. This chawan by Shoraku Kiln is hand-built in that tradition, its form wide and gently irregular, with vertical ridges running from rim to foot that give the surface a rhythm without imposing symmetry. The glaze moves across the exterior in passages of warm coral, pale blush, and soft grey, the transitions unplanned and unrepeatable, pooling in places and thinning in others where the ridges have pushed it aside. Where the glaze has dripped and cooled on the lower body, it leaves a crystalline edge that records the exact moment it stopped moving. It is a bowl that carries its making visibly, and is more considered for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis bowl is accompanied by OG Matcha Kakitsubata from Osada Tea, selected to complete the tea experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shoraku Kiln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53312537264442,"sku":null,"price":338.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShorakuKiln_Red_Raku_1.webp?v=1776060591"},{"product_id":"chojiro-jirobo-style-red-raku-matcha-bowl-set","title":"Chojiro Jirobo Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eJirobo is one of the named red raku chawan attributed to Chojiro, and its character lies in the way the form holds itself. The body rounds fully at the waist before the rim draws inward with a contained, considered restraint. One side of the rounded body is subtly tightened, a deliberate asymmetry that keeps the eye moving without announcing itself. A ridge at the mid-body pulls the form inward at that point, giving the silhouette a quiet articulation. The interior is deep, with a shallow well at the center that gathers the tea. This chawan by Shoraku Kiln works within that form, its surface finished in deep terracotta red with white glaze descending in vertical passages across the exterior, a bowl shaped by the red raku tradition that Chojiro established in 16th century Kyoto under the influence of Sen no Rikyu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis bowl is accompanied by OG Matcha Kakitsubata from Osada Tea, selected to complete the tea experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shoraku Kiln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53312542802234,"sku":null,"price":338.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShorakuKiln_Chojiro_Jirobo_Red_1.webp?v=1776060603"},{"product_id":"sonyu-hanaikada-style-red-raku-matcha-bowl-set","title":"Sonyu Hanaikada Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eHanaikada, flower raft, is the name given to one of Sonyu's representative red raku chawan, evoking the classical Japanese image of cherry blossom petals scattered across still water, drifting together in a fleeting, wordless composition. Sonyu, the 5th generation head of the Raku family, worked during the ornate Genroku era of late 17th-century Kyoto yet chose to move against its decorative current, returning instead to the austere wabi spirit that Chojiro had established a century before. The form sits low and settled at the waist, grounded and unhurried. Across its surface, deep terracotta red shifts into darker iron passages where the firing has drawn the glaze into shadow, with a quieter, whitish tone emerging elsewhere, the whole surface carrying the kind of unplanned variation that earned Sonyu's glaze work its enduring reputation. This chawan by Shoraku Kiln follows that lineage with care, hand-built in a tradition that has stood at the center of Japanese tea culture for over 400 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis bowl is accompanied by OG Matcha Kakitsubata from Osada Tea, selected to complete the tea experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shoraku Kiln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53312545521978,"sku":null,"price":318.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShorakuKiln_Sonyu_Hanaikaga_1.webp?v=1776060619"},{"product_id":"koetsu-shigure-style-black-raku-matcha-bowl-set","title":"Koetsu Shigure Style Black Raku Matcha Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003eShigure names the brief, passing showers of late autumn and early winter, rain that falls suddenly, stops, and falls again, a phenomenon so particular to that season that it has carried its own word in Japanese since the age of the Manyoshu. It is this quality, localized, transient, arriving and departing without warning, that names one of Hon'ami Koetsu's most celebrated black raku chawan, where black glaze settles fully in some areas and thins to almost nothing in others, exposing the dark clay beneath as though the rain had simply passed over those places without touching them. Koetsu, the early 17th-century Kyoto artist who worked alongside the Raku family's 2nd and 3rd generations, applied glaze with that same freedom from predictability. The rim is finished flat across its upper edge, the waist rounds gently, and the form carries the assurance of a hand unbound by convention. This chawan by Shoraku Kiln follows that tradition with fidelity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis bowl is accompanied by OG Matcha Kakitsubata from Osada Tea, selected to complete the tea experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shoraku Kiln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53312551387450,"sku":null,"price":338.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShorakuKiln_Koetsu_Shigure_Black_1.webp?v=1776060630"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/collections\/ShorakuKiln_Chojiro_Kamuro_Black_Square.webp?v=1776059176","url":"https:\/\/omakase-forest.pro\/collections\/shoraku-kiln.oembed","provider":"omakase","version":"1.0","type":"link"}